For houses coming within the second category, that is, where independent prostitutes go to exercise their calling,
| 1st | class | 100f. |
| 2nd | „ | 60f. |
| 3rd | „ | 40f. |
Payments for sanitary visits must be made every fifteen days, and the latter tax three months in advance; at the moment of inscription the woman is subjected to the first sanitary visit.
Women in houses of ill fame must not present themselves at the windows or stand in the doorway. Every immoral provocation on the part of the keeper is absolutely forbidden. All servants in these houses under forty-five shall be inspected by the doctors.
Every woman found in any of these houses without being furnished with a licence, and without being inscribed, shall be considered as giving herself up to clandestine prostitution.
The master of the house, in this case, shall have his licence suspended, or altogether taken away from him.
The police give every assistance in their power to those prostitutes who wish to quit their way of living.
Houses of ill fame are to be closed at certain hours determined by the police.
The rules passed in 1857 are very strict, and place loose women completely in the power of the police, without whose sanction they can do nothing. As long as they remain prostitutes they are in a complete state of servitude; but this severe supervision is productive of beneficial results, as far as the curtailing of the extension of syphilis goes; and, after all, this should be the main consideration with every legislator upon this much-vexed question.